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Proverbial Wisdom Quotes

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"If you lie down with dogs, you'll wake up with fleas."
"If you remember -- let me absorb that for a moment. There's no education in the second kick of a mule."
"Tell me what you eat and I will tell you who you are."
"Until the Lions learn how to write, every story will glorify the Hunter."
"Don't do the crime if you don't want to do the time. It's that simple."
"Beggars can't be choosers" - dysfunction at almost every level.
"You get more flies with honey than with vinegar, right?"
"One man's rubbish is another man's treasure."
"Hope deferred maketh the heart sick but when the desire cometh it is a tree of life."
"To whom much is given, much will be required."
"You have to care. You have to be interested in it even obsessed in it."
"Let me see, we shall see said the blind man."
"A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on."
"These people are stupid. Never interfere with an enemy while he's in the process of destroying himself." - Discovery Q
"Live by the sword, die by it. He needs to get his coat, he needs to leave."
"Everyone wants to save money; great! Every cloud has a silver lining."
"The road to hell is paved with good intentions and all that."
"Even the devil can tell the truth once in a while when he wants to."
"Only when lions have historians will the hunters cease to be heroes."
"Lean on and trust in the Lord, and you have a friend who sticks closer than a brother."
"In the land of the blind, one-eyed man is king."
"The wicked flee when no man pursueth, but the righteous are bold as lions."
"Remember, this is nothing new under the Sun."
"The road to hell being paved with good intentions."
"A man who doesn't have self-control is like a city broken into and left without walls."
"They say the best things come in small packages."
"Success has like a million fathers and failure has one or something like that."
"It was better to return home a live donkey than a dead lion."
"I mean, you know, they say about intentions and the road to hell."
"You catch more flies with honey than you do with vinegar."
"Every dog has a day." - Implying that everyone gets their moment of reckoning.
"There's a saying that those who forget history are doomed to repeat it."
"History doesn't usually repeat itself but it often rhymes."
"They do say that the road to hell is paved with good intentions."
"May you live in interesting times, and so we do, to say the least."
"Assumption is the motherfucker of all things."
"Hope for the best, but the demon's inch now lasts longest."
"Remember, a picture is worth a thousand words."
"The road to hell is paved with good intentions sometimes."
"As a dog returns to his vomit, so a fool repeats his folly."
"If you have nothing nice to say, don't say anything at all."
"It's always good intentions, but the road to hell is paved with good intentions."
"Revenge is a dish best served cold, my friend."
"People can actually, like I said, be okay and then just fall straight, you know, there's that old saying that, you know, 'the converts are the most devout.'"
"Sometimes the enemy of my enemy is my friend."
"When the lips are gone, the teeth will be cold."
"History never repeats, but it often rhymes." - Mark Twain
"One man's trash is another man's treasure, right?"
"The devil you know is better than the angel you don't know."
"If it looks like a duck and it acts like a duck, it's probably a duck."
"Happy wife, Happy life. And it has, it's a valid biblical truth."
"Where there is no vision, the people perish." - Proverbs 29:18
"One man's garbage is another man's treasure, eh?"
"It isn't quite the feeding of the 5000 but as the old saying goes teach me to fish and I will eat for a lifetime give me a fish in the form of fingers and I will eat for a lunch time or something I've just cooked it you imbecile."
"Stanchik, the Court Jester, was considered one of the wisest. He once said, 'It's a greater Folly to let out a bear that was already locked in a cage.'"
"What good is it to feed a man for a day... teach a man to fish and he eats for a lifetime."
"Life and death lie in the power of the tongue."
"Slow and steady wins the race, taking your time planning for success."
"The road to hell is paved with good intentions, isn't it?"
"Live by the sword, die by the sword. This is the motto."
"There's an African proverb: 'Sticks in a bundle are unbreakable.' Alone, we are just sticks; in a bundle, we are unbreakable."
"Birds of a feather really do flock together."
"All the days of the afflicted are evil, but he that is of a merry heart has a continual feast."
"A person's trash is another person's treasure."
"Even a completely mad broken clock can still be right twice a day."
"A chain is only as strong as its weakest link." - John Campia
"The path to hell is paved with good intentions... often leads to bad things even if you meant well."
"Let's take this power and use it exactly like he doesn't want us to for humanity."
"A lie will travel around the world, while the truth is still putting its shoes on."
"Those that play with fire will get burned by it."
"I think the tongue is mightier than the sword any given day of the week."
"The road to hell is often paved with good intentions."
"All's well that ends well. That is all for this time!"
"It takes a village to raise a child, and truer words have never been spoken."
"The reality of the situation is I might have been born at night and not last night, and I'm fully aware that where there is smoke, there is fire."
"Many hands make light work, yes. Too many cooks spoil the broth, and you should never bite the hand that feeds you."
"If wishes and buts were candy and nuts we'd all see a statue of Jesus crying hard work."
"Revenge is obviously a dish best served cold."
"The road to hell is indeed paved with good intentions."
"A man's gift will make room for him and bring him before Great Men."
"The hell you know is better than the one you don't."
"Show me your company and I'll tell you who you are."
"It's like an eye for an eye. Yeah, well, it makes the whole world blind. That's the icy sword of truth."
"He who laughs last after all laughs loudest."
"Success has many fathers. Failure is an orphan. Think about it."
"The lack of knowledge is the mother of Destruction."
"Curiosity can indeed kill the cat."
"Actions speak louder than words, and you will see the lifestyle."
"A wise man once said, haters going to hate."
"Even the road to hell has good intentions."
"A man who lives by the sword dies by the sword."
"A dream deferred makes the heart sick, but a longing fulfilled is a tree of life."
"When elephants fight, it is the grass that gets trampled flat."
"The fools rush in where angels fear to tread."
"Good woman is more precious than rubies."
"A man's word was his promise, and you could trust him. That is no longer a proverb in the financial center of London."
"But they say seeing is believing, right?"
"Don't count your chickens until the eggs hatch."
"Everybody pays. It's the old story, live by the sword, you die by the sword."
"The Lord gave you two ends, one for sitting and one for thinking. Your success depends on which you use; heads you win, tails you lose."
"Actions speak louder than a name."
"When something looks like a duck and quacks like a duck, then probably it is a duck."
"You'll know the tree by the fruits."
"It's better to stick with the devil you know than the one you don't."
"Not everything that glistens has gold."
"Anybody can count the number of seeds in an apple, but no one can count the number of apples in a seed."
"Good things come to those who wait, am I wrong?"
"All work and no play makes Johnny a very dull boy."
"All is well that ends well, at least that's what we think so far."
"Don't put your eggs in one basket, as they say."